Sanders Has Already Won [View all]

By Justin Akers / socialistworker.org

Bernie Sanders does not have to become president in order to win. Just by getting in the ring, he has already scored a major victory for the American working class. His campaign is blazing a new trail to the left in the American political system. In the coming years, we will probably see the development of a Democratic Socialist Party in the U.S.

Win or lose, his campaign will lay the foundation for a new American left. His candidacy has opened the door to socialism in the U.S. The debate about America's economic future will no longer be a debate between the center and the right. Finally, the real left will be heard.

The people who will be galvanized by the Sanders campaign have no reason to consider socialism a dirty word. We have witnessed in our lifetime the epic, miserable failure of unrestrained capital. We can see the devastation global capital is inflicting on the environment. Our generation has trillions in student loan debt. We have no health care. Our wages are stagnant. We feel these truths to be self-evident.

The steel door that capital bolted shut on the working class, locking socialism away from the debate, has been blown off its hinges by Bernie Sanders, allowing socialism in America to finally breath again.

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http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/sanders-has-already-won/

I'm inclined to agree with this. The discussions and topics of the 2016 race will most certainly resonate into the mid-terms, and into 2020, regardless of who win in 2016. That is going to be one closely scrutinized first term, and it will be,intentional or not, compared to the things Sanders brings to the discussion. And I love it